'Sick lunatic' Trump may be falling apart because of the one thing he can’t change

Donald Trump speaking at a MAGA rally, hosted by Turning Point Action. at Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona on July 24, 2021, Gage Skidmore

A prominent political analyst argued on Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration is falling apart because of the one thing he cannot change — his aging body.

“He’s 80!” political analyst David Rothkopf told The Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles on Monday. “He’s had a good life, and he should be at Mar-a-Lago sitting by the pool, having a margarita, talking to his friends about things he used to do.”

He added, “Unfortunately, he is a disturbed, sick lunatic who holds the most powerful job in the world and is at a stage of his existence where, because he’s a narcissist, the only thing he cares about is himself. And if every single one of us ceased to exist, he wouldn’t care, because the world is him.”

In addition to Trump’s advancing age, Rothkopf also pointed to the president’s weight, an issue he raised because obesity can harm one’s physical and mental health. Trump claimed that he is 6’3” and 230 pounds, although as MS NOW commentator Michael Steele recently observed, that would give him roughly the same physique as professional American football players Sam Darnold (6'3" 225 lbs) and DK Metcalf (6'4" 229 lbs).

“When they say he’s 6′3″ and 230 pounds, all you have to do is Google what a 6′3″, 230-pound athlete looks like,” Rothkopf argued. ”Trump does not look like that.”

He also observed that “we know that the assertion that he has bruises on his hands because of handshaking is ludicrous. And we know that Trump’s assertion that he is the only guy who’s had to go through all these cognitive tests and he passed them with flying colors is silly because you don’t get cognitive tests unless the doctor thinks you’ve got a problem with your cognition.”

In terms of Trump’s behavior, Rothkopf described it as “erratic,” saying that the president does “irrational things” and is “ignoring rational advice.”

“Look, you don’t have to be a psychiatrist to know that this guy is behaving in an erratic, irrational way for whatever the organic reason is,” Rothkopf said. “You don’t have to be a doctor to know that this guy is physically unwell.”

In response to Rothkopf’s remarks, the Trump White House told The Daily Beast that “David Rothkopf is a far-left loser who clearly suffers from a severe and debilitating disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”

Yet Rothkopf is not alone in expressing concern about Trump’s fitness. Earlier this month psychiatrist Dr. Henry Abraham — who formerly taught psychiatry at Tufts University — told AlterNet that he co-authored a letter to Congress with dozens of other medical professionals for that exact reason.

“It’s a red flag,” Dr. Abraham told AlterNet. “People perseverate because they can’t think of anything else to say, because they’re cognitively impaired, or they perseverate because their emotional motor is stuck in high gear. In the last five to 10 years, he has planted red flags of concern again and again and again, and they’ve clustered.”

He particularly identified what appears to be Trump’s struggle to “internalize certain control over his language,” such as mixing up Iceland and Greenland in a recent speech.

“Not only did he have these kinds of linguistic failings, but he began to exhibit more and more signs of really rage and poor impulse control, and at night, what appeared to be manic kinds of episodes where he would tweet, you know, 100, 200 times a night,” Abraham said.

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